<feedBurner> (Optional) - Specifies that FeedBurner is to serve the feed, rather than publishing it directly.

If an article contains a feed section, links titled 'RSS' and 'Atom' will appear in the Toolbox. Additionally, because the appropriate <meta> tags are supplied, your browser may show a feed icon in the address bar.

Note: In the Monobook skin, the Toolbox is in the left-hand sidebar column, towards the bottom.

As mentioned before, a feed section is delimited by the <startFeed /> and <endFeed /> flags. Note that these are closed tags, and are functionally equivalent to <startFeed></startFeed> and <endFeed></endFeed> respectively.

The <feedBurner> tag, when specified, must have a single attribute called 'name'. This is the final URL component of the feedburner.com feed URL.

For example, consider this url:

http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blog

The Atom feed URL for this page would be:

http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blog&action=feed

Suppose this has been mapped via feedburner.com to:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Jimbojwcom-Blog

And thus, the following is added to the original article text to complete the circle:

<feedBurner name="Jimbojwcom-Blog" />

Note that using FeedBurner in this fashion does not prevent users from still trying to access the generated feeds directly, but it does change all the links to point to feedburner rather than back to the wiki.

The description for the rendered RSS or Atom feed will be "Description of my feed." The feed will have two items, both authored by "User:Anon".

Feed item publication dates are determined automatically from wiki signatures with or without talk page link and determine the feed item sorting sequence when it is generated: usually descending dates, but this can be reversed.

The generated feed item URLs are links to the matching page section title, unless a link is found in the feed item text. In the above, the "First Feed Item" links to the section "[[#First Item]]", while the "Second Feed Item" links to "[[Main page]]". This behaviour can be changed per wiki see below.

As of version 0.6, WikiArticleFeeds supports tagging by way of either the <itemTags> tag or {{itemTags}} parser function.

To tag a feed item, insert either the <itemTags> tag, or the a call to the {{itemTags}} parser function somewhere between the opening header of the item (== Item Title ==) and the header of the next item.

For example, to mark an item about dogs and cats, you could do any of the following:

Tagging an item does nothing to the finished page itself other than add an HTML comment indicating the tag. Also, it will not affect the feed directly as this does not inject real actual RSS or Atom categories.

However, once you've tagged items, you can filter a feed by the item tags. For example consider the following URL:

http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blog&action=feed

This will generate a feed from the page called [[Blog]], containing all items therein. Now consider this variant:

Having a mix of level headings is ok, but only the sections highest level heading (lowest number) will be considered feed items:

<startFeed />
=== More Rain ===
Nope. Today it was rainy, again. Blah.
==== This is not a new Item ====
This text and the preceding heading both belong to the "More Rain" item.
=== Not Sunny Today ===
Not quite rainy, just foggy, maybe it'll get better?
<endFeed />

A single instance of the default signature gives credit to the author of an item: "~~~~" when you edit the MediaWiki page and when the feed is rendered. WikiArticleFeeds is smart enough to detect it as a declaration of the Author and Date.

Although attribution is not required, you are strongly recommended to follow this convention. Externally, it aids the reader of the feed by providing more meta-data about the item. Internally, it permits aggregation to operate more smoothly (see next section).

When this page is converted into a single feed, both the "Not Sunny Today" and "More Rain" items will appear, in reverse chronological order (newest first) and permits the pulling together of feeds on separate pages via MediaWiki Template notation (also sometimes referred to as Transclusion).

There are two options for automatically creating the feed's link URL. First, if there are no URLs, or the only URLs in the feed text itself are part of the attribution, then the feed URL will be simply a link to the item in the page.

This behavior can be disabled by setting $wgForceArticleFeedSectionLinks to true in LocalSettings.php. See the installation section for details.